The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports the National Science Foundation has awarded Pulkit Grover, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University professor a NSF Career Award to develop “tools to reduce energy consumption in communications and big data computation networks.”

The National Science Foundation has awarded a Carnegie Mellon University professor a $600,000 NSF Career Award to develop new tools to reduce energy consumption in communications and big data computation networks, CMU officials announced on Tuesday.